Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.

Photography... unites the obvious and the unconscious at the level of the limimal - the border between what we see and what we suspect.

The more specific the interpretation suggested by a picture, the less happy I am with it.

Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like.

[Photography is a] hair-raising joy ride in a medium that, despite being a mechanical trick, can break down the division between mind and matter like a superhero, or an artist.

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?

I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

Cell phones have changed us from a nation of self-reliant pioneer types into a bunch of men standing alone in supermarkets saying, ‘Okay, I’m in the tampon aisle, but I don’t see it.'

I feel the most pulled together when I'm going for the tomboyish thing.

When I think about being out of the business, it scares me.

Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.